TW201617983A - Distribution center management method and system - Google Patents

Abstract

A distribution center management system is disclosed. A distribution center has a plurality of warehouses that store physical goods. A method is executed by the distribution center management system. The management system has a temporary database, a plurality of warehousing hosts respectively appointed to individual warehouses and a sheet-combining host with each connected through a communication network. The method includes the following steps: recording multiple orders in the temporary database with each order having an order number and a plurality of product codes, wherein each of the product codes corresponds to a stock location in a warehouse; each of the warehousing hosts outputting a plurality of order picking sheets, wherein each order picking sheet is recorded with the stock locations of products stored in the same warehouse, and each of the order picking sheets corresponds to a same order and is allocated with a same temporary warehousing location for being record in the temporary database; the sheet-combing host indicating an order picking status in order to confirm a process of picking physical products corresponding to each of the product codes of the same order is completed; and deleting data of the stock location and the temporary warehousing location of the products accordingly.

Description

Logistics center management method and system

The present invention relates to a management method and system for a distribution center, and more particularly to a management method and system for a logistics center that saves operating time.

In the existing online shopping mode, when consumers want to purchase goods from different online stores, they must separately check out the online stores and then ship and send them separately by individual online stores. For consumers, it is impossible to save on shipping costs, and repeated checkouts are also a waste of time, resulting in low consumer willingness. For logistics center operators who distribute a large number of store products, since different types of goods are stored in different warehouses separately, goods that can be stacked across different product categories can also be shipped together to reduce the traditional separately sent shipping costs. More willing to buy, to achieve a win-win situation.

Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a management method and system for improving a prior art logistics center.

In the management method of the logistics center of the present invention, the logistics center has a warehouse for storing a plurality of physical commodities, and the method is a tube of the logistics center. The system is executed. The management system has a temporary storage database connected to each other via a communication network, a storage host and a single storage device belonging to different warehouses respectively.

The method comprises the steps of: each of the storage hosts respectively outputting a picking order of an inventory position of itself, each picking order carrying an inventory position belonging to an item under the same warehouse; the single ordering device will correspond to different picking of the same order The single temporary storage position is recorded in the temporary storage position, and the single-unit equipment instructs the operator to pick the goods, and deletes the data of the temporary storage position in the temporary storage database after the completion of the combined picking.

In some implementations, the management system further includes an outbound host, each of the pick lists further having an identification barcode, the management method further comprising the steps of: the outbound host identifying the identification barcodes of the pick orders and The commodity code of the most selected physical commodities is selected to determine whether the commodity codes of the physical commodities are consistent with the commodity codes listed in each of the orders, and if they match, they can be shipped, and if they do not match, they must be re-sorted.

In the management system of the logistics center of the present invention, the logistics center has a warehouse for storing physical commodities, and the management system is used for processing a plurality of orders. The management system includes a temporary storage database, and most storage hosts belonging to different warehouses and A single device.

The temporary database records the orders, each order has an order number and a plurality of commodity codes, and each of the commodity codes corresponds to an inventory position. The storage hosts are connected to the temporary storage database via a communication network, and each of the storage hosts respectively outputs a picking order of the inventory positions of the respective stocks, and each picking order carries an inventory position of the goods belonging to the same warehouse.

The different picking orders of the same order corresponding to the same order are allocated in the same temporary storage position and recorded in the temporary storage database, and the operator is instructed to pick the goods, and the temporary storage is deleted in the temporary storage database after the completion of the combined picking Information on the position of the deposit.

In some implementations, each of the pick lists further has an identification bar code, and the binary device further includes an outbound host that identifies the identification bar code of the picking order and the merchandise of the most selected physical items. Encoding to determine whether the merchandise code of the physical merchandise matches the merchandise code listed in each of the orders.

The effect of the invention is that the management system of the logistics center can shorten the processing time of the overall delivery by allocating the same temporary storage position on the same order for the physical goods in the order to be sorted and placed in the temporary storage position. In this way, the logistics center operators can provide services that can be quickly shipped together in the cross-commodity categories of different warehouses, and consumers can also purchase diversified products at one time to achieve a win-win situation.

1‧‧‧Control host

10‧‧‧Management system

11‧‧‧Scratch database

21‧‧‧First Storage Host

211‧‧‧First pick list

22‧‧‧Second storage host

221‧‧‧Second Pick List

231‧‧‧First printer

232‧‧‧Second printer

3‧‧‧Single host

31‧‧‧First computer

32‧‧‧Second computer

321‧‧‧ temporary storage position

33‧‧‧Export host

4‧‧‧Communication network

5‧‧‧ Order

6‧‧‧Warehouse

61‧‧‧First stock position

62‧‧‧Second inventory position

7‧‧‧ Outbound host

8‧‧‧Ship host

81‧‧‧Printing printer

301~309‧‧‧Steps

311~316‧‧‧Steps

Other features and advantages of the present invention will be apparent from the detailed description of the embodiments of the present invention, wherein: FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an embodiment of the components of the management system of the logistics center of the present invention. 2 is a system diagram illustrating a portion of the components of the embodiment of FIG. 1 receiving an order, generating a pick list and a corresponding storage area; and FIG. 3 is a flow chart illustrating the method steps performed by the embodiment of FIG. .

Referring to FIG. 1, in the embodiment of the present invention, the location of the logistics center includes "A Zone A" and "B Zone B" as different types of commodity warehouses, "C Zone C" as a centralized storage product, and after the order "Do not look at the panel", "single export area", "single out of the warehouse area", "single shipment area". Among them, the merchandise picking and moving routes are: "A Zone A" and "B Zone B" → "C Zone B" → "Listing to the Panel" → "Single Exit Zone" → "Single Outbound Area" ”→“Single Shipment Area”.

Referring to Figures 1 and 2, the management system 10 of the logistics center has a first storage host 21 and a first printer 231 disposed in the "Ath District A" and a second storage host 22 in the "Bth Area". And a second printer 232, a single host 3 in the "C area", a first computer 31 and a second computer 32 in the "single viewing area", in the "single export area" An exit host 33, a delivery host 7 in the "single outbound area", and a shipping host 8 and a shipping printer 81 in the "single shipping area".

In addition, the management system 10 is configured to process a plurality of orders 5, and the management system 10 further includes a control host 1 and a temporary storage database 11 for recording the orders 5, a first storage host 21, a second storage host 22, and The single host 3, the first computer 31, the second computer 32, the egress host 33, the outbound host 7 and the shipping host 8 are all connected to the temporary storage database 11 via a communication network 4 and access the data of the temporary storage database 11. . The single host 3, the first computer 31, the second computer 32, the egress host 33, and the outbound host 7 all belong to a single device, and the functions of the single device can be collected in a single host or distributed by different hosts as in this embodiment. All belong to the scope of the present invention.

The logistics center is equipped with a plurality of warehouses 6 for storing different types of physical commodities, such as: Warehouse A and Warehouse B, the warehouse in Area A has a first inventory position 61, and the warehouse in Area B has a second inventory position 62. . In addition, the logistics center is configured with a C-zone, and the C-zone has a temporary storage location 321 .

Referring to Fig. 3, with reference to Fig. 2, an embodiment of the management method of the logistics center of the present invention will be described below.

Step 301 - The control host 1 receives the order 5, and stores the order 5 in the temporary storage database 11, each order 5 has an order number and a plurality of commodity codes, and each of the commodity codes corresponds to an inventory position.

Step 302 - The control host 1 determines whether it is the same warehouse according to the commodity code. If the product code belongs to the same warehouse, proceed to step 303.

Step 303 - Print the pick list. For example, if the product is in the "A area", the first storage host 21 obtains the order data from the temporary storage database 11 and prints the picking order in cooperation with the first printer 231.

Step 304 - The operator picks up the merchandise according to the picking list.

Step 305 - The operator completes the picking.

Step 306 - The outbound host 7 confirms whether the item and quantity match the order data. In this embodiment, each pick list also has an identification barcode, and the delivery host 7 identifies the identification barcode of the picking order and the commodity code of the most selected physical commodities to determine the commodity code and each order of the physical commodity. Whether the product codes listed in 5 match, if yes, step 307 is performed, and if not, step 308 is performed.

Step 307 - Print the recipient's related information of the order. This implementation In the example, the shipping host 8 cooperates with the shipping printer 81 to print the recipient related information of the order 5.

Step 308 - The operator re-sorts the goods, and after re-picking, proceeds to step 306 again.

Step 309 - The operator packs and ships.

The above steps 303 to 305 are the sorting processes in which the product codes belong to the same warehouse, whereby the goods of the same product category can be shipped. If the product code does not belong to the same warehouse, you need to perform steps 311~316 to complete the picking process that is not in the same warehouse.

Step 311 - Print the picking order according to the commodity inventory position.

Step 312 - The operator picks up the merchandise according to the picking list.

Step 313 - The operator completes the picking.

Step 314 - The single host 3 scans the pick list and indicates the commodity temporary storage position.

Referring to FIG. 2, the item x of the same order 5 is located in the first stock position 61 and the item y is located in the second stock position 62. The first storage host 21 cooperates with the first printer 231 and the second storage host 22 to print a first pick list 211 and a second pick list 221, respectively, in cooperation with the second printer 232. The first pick list 211 carries the data of the first stock position 61 of the physical item x, and the second pick list 221 carries the information of the second stock position 62 of the physical item y.

After the single host 3 scans the first picking order 211, the physical item x is displayed to be placed in the temporary storage position 321; when the single host 3 scans the second picking order 221, the physical item y is displayed to be placed in the same temporary storage position 321 . Therefore, the single host 3 is responsible for indicating the temporary storage position 321 of each commodity, and the temporary storage database. 11 records the temporary storage position 321 corresponding to the first picking order 211 and the second picking order 221.

Step 315 - Determine whether the picking order of the same order has been picked. In this embodiment, the first computer 31 displays whether the first picking order 211 and the second picking order 221 both indicate that the temporary storage position 321 is placed according to the single host 3. The second computer 32 is instructed by the operator to continue the physical goods x and y in which the temporary storage position is placed, in steps 306-309.

Step 316 - Before the operator continues steps 306-309, the export host 33 is deleted to delete the data of the temporary storage position. In this embodiment, the egress host 33 deletes the data of the temporary storage location 321 corresponding to the temporary storage database 11, indicating that the temporary storage position 321 has been emptied, and then can continue to be used.

Then, steps 306-309 are continued to complete the shipment of goods across the product category.

In summary, the effect of the present invention is that the management system 10 of the logistics center is uniformly placed in the temporary storage position 321 by allocating the same temporary storage position 321 on the same order 5 for the physical goods in the order 5 to be picked up. Reduce the processing time of the overall delivery. In this way, the logistics center provider can provide services that can be quickly shipped together in the cross-commodity category of the different warehouses 6 , and the consumer can also purchase the diversified products at one time to achieve a win-win situation, so the invention can be achieved. purpose.

However, the above is only the embodiment of the present invention, and the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, that is, the simple equivalent changes and modifications made by the patent application scope and the patent specification of the present invention are still It is within the scope of the patent of the present invention.

301~309‧‧‧Steps

311~316‧‧‧Steps

Claims (4)

A management method of a logistics center having a plurality of warehouses for storing physical commodities, the method being implemented by a management system of a logistics center having a temporary storage database, a majority of storage hosts, and a connection via a communication network And a single device, the method comprises combining different commodity codes of at least one order corresponding to different inventory positions, and the method comprises the following steps: each of the storage hosts respectively output a picking order of the own inventory position, each picking list An inventory position containing goods belonging to the same warehouse; the single equipment assigns different pick orders corresponding to the same order to the same temporary storage position and records in the temporary storage database; and the single equipment indicates the operator picking And deleting the data of the temporary storage position in the temporary storage database after the completion of the combined picking. The management method of the logistics center according to claim 1, wherein the management system further comprises a delivery host, each of the pick lists further has an identification barcode, and the management further comprises the step of: identifying the same by the delivery host The identification barcode of the manifest and the commodity code of the most selected physical commodity to determine whether the commodity code of the physical commodity matches the commodity code listed in each order, and if it matches, it can be shipped. If it does not match, it must be renewed. Picking. A management system for a logistics center having a plurality of warehouses for storing physical commodities, the management system for processing a plurality of orders, the management system comprising: a temporary storage database, recording the orders, each order having a subscription Single number and most commodity codes, and each commodity code corresponds to an inventory position; most storage hosts are connected to the temporary storage database via a communication network, and each storage host outputs a picking order of its own inventory position, each picking The manifest contains the inventory positions of the goods belonging to the same warehouse; and the single-single equipment, the different pick orders corresponding to the same order are allocated in the same temporary storage position and recorded in the temporary storage database, and the operator is instructed to pick the goods, And after the completion of the merge picking, the data of the temporary storage position is deleted in the temporary storage database. The management system of the logistics center according to claim 3, each of the picking orders further has an identification bar code, the parallel device further comprising: an outbound host, identifying the identification bar code of the picking order and the selected majority The commodity code of the physical commodity is used to determine whether the commodity code of the physical commodity matches the commodity code listed in each order, and if it matches, it can be shipped, and if it does not match, it must be re-sorted.